The BBC has landed Brook Lapping’s Emma Hindley as lead commissioning editor for its docs-focused Storyville strand. Hindley had been in interim charge since replacing Philippa Kowarsky last year and before that spent five years as creative director at Brook Lapping. She has worked on shows including Suffragettes With Lucy Worsley, David Harewood: Psychosis And […]
BBC orders Putin docuseries UK broadcaster BBC Two has ordered Putin And The West, a new docuseries exploring how Western leaders have struggled to deal with Russia as Vladimir Putin tries to exert his power on the world stage. The 3 x 60-minute series is a co-production between Brook Lapping, Les Films d’Ici and ARTE […]
Factual producer Brook Lapping’s 9/11: Life Under Attack, which coincides with the 20th anniversary of 9/11, has secured a raft of international sales through distributor BBC Studios. The 90-minute feature length doc was commissioned by ITV, France Televisions (French title 9/11: From the Ground Up), the History Channel (US title 9/11: I Was There) and […]
Emma Hindley, creative director at UK-based factual production outfit Zinc Media Group, lifts the lid on helping celebrity talent open up about past traumas on Brook Lapping’s Ian Wright: Home Truths for BBC One and Films of Record’s BBC2 show David Harewood: Psychosis And Me. Asking well-known people to tell you about some of the most painful events […]
UK factual producer Brook Lapping launches its three-part docuseries Trump Takes On The World on BBC Two next week. Series director Tim Stirzaker reveals how his team’s persistence through a pandemic – and an impeachment – secured unprecedented access to the former US president’s inner circle. When we started developing this series in the autumn of […]
UK-based factual production outfit Zinc Media Group has raised £4m ($5.2m) via a new share issue, with the investment used to explore growth opportunities and act as a “bulwark” to the impact of the pandemic. The company – which houses UK prodcos Blakeway, Blakeway North, Brook Lapping, Films of Record, Reef, and Tern Television – had […]
The UK’s BBC4 has boarded a documentary from Zinc Media-owned factual outfit Brook Lapping examining what happened to Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi’s vast wealth after his death. The 1 x 90-minute investigative documentary, with the working title of The Search For Gaddafi’s Billions will follow two Dutch journalists, Misha Wessel and Thomas Blom, as they […]
ITV, France TV order Brook Lapping 9/11 doc ITV and France Televisions have ordered a feature-length documentary exploring the terrorist attacks on the US in 2001, with Zinc Media Group’s Brook Lapping producing. 9/11: We Have Some Planes (working title, 1 x 90 minutes) will feature previously unheard audio and images from the day of […]
Redseven returns for Sat.1’s The Taste Red Arrow Studios-owned German producer Redseven Entertainment has returned to studio production for the first time since the outbreak of Coronavirus to work on an eighth season of culinary format The Taste. The show, which has been extended by broadcaster parent ProSiebenSat.1, started production on its eighth run in […]
Amazon, Nat Geo Mundo bag Brook Lapping’s Cuba doc Amazon Prime in the US, TV HK in Hong Kong and Fox Latin America are among operators to have picked up a two-parter about the Cuban revolution from Zinc Media’s UK factual producer Brook Lapping. Cuba: The Revolution And The World (2 x 60-minutes) has been […]
